Religion: Bradley's 25th

In Chicago's Palmer House one night last week some 1,300 people, including Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, the British Consul General, Rabbi Louis Leopold Mann and numerous ministers, paid $2 apiece to eat fruit, asparagus soup, chicken, Salade Peoples Church, Frozen Cake 25th Jubilee. The jubilee was that of the world's largest Unitarian church (2,500 members), founded with 67 members in 1912 by a rotund, swarthy little man who today is Chicago's most popular Protestant pastor.

Preston Bradley, son of a blacksmith of Linden, Mich., preached his first sermon at 15, studied law and obtained...

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